Russia, U.K, U.S. and Novichok Nerve Agent - The Agent of Many Seasons

Recently, multiple articles have circulated about the Novichok Agent murders of Sergei Skripal, the Russian born MI6 double agent, and his daughter. Nafeez Ahmed wrote an article entitled: The UK Government is Manufacturing its Nerve Agent Case for ‘Action’ on Russia - Official claim that ‘Novichok’ points solely to Russia discredited, James O'Neill wrote: The Strange Case of the UK/Russian Spy Poisoning Allegations, and Craig Murray wrote: Russian to Judgement. Additionally, True Publica published: Double Agent Sergei Skripal – There’s More to This Story Than Meets the Eye. In my article, I take a look at these four well researched, scholarly pieces, and try to paint a more complete picture than any one article managed on its own.

James O'Neill opens with the prescient question, cui bono? Who benefits? Certainly not the Russians. Lets explore that question.

Russia is the only state to have been certified by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) as having destroyed its chemical weapons program, including its nerve agent capabilities. The OPCW found no evidence to indicate that Russia retains an active Novichok capability. The same is not the case for the US, Britain and Israel.(1)

Russia has vehemently denied involvement in the nerve agent attack and accused British politicians of engaging in “pure propaganda”.(3)

In his article, Nafeez Ahmed makes the case that the U.K.'s blaming Russia for the Nerve Agent (Novichok) attack on Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, U.K. this past week, is discredited. This is not unlike Colin Powell's "Yellow Cake and WMD" claims prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. When the evidence is objectively scrutinized, there is zero possibility that Russia is the lone party capable of this attack. Furthermore, not only is Russia NOT the only party capable, but they are the LEAST likely to have actually executed the attack. Israel's Mossad, and the U.K.'s Porton Down, become suspect, with the U.S. in third and Russia a VERY distant fourth. These four countries comprise the only likely actors. Lets take a look at some outtakes from the articles.

James O'Neill:
"In any major criminal inquiry one of the basic questions the investigation asks is: who had the means, the motive and the opportunity? Framed in that light, the Russians come a distant fourth behind the other prime suspects; the U.S. and U.K. intelligence agencies themselves, and those elements of the deep state that sought to prevent Trump winning, and subsequently to undermine his presidency. The primary motive being ascribed to the Russians is revenge for Skripal’s treachery more than a decade ago."(5)

One fact that the mainstream press have not mentioned is that even after prosecutors had convicted Skripal of high treason in their own country, the Russian state gave him a full state pardon, placed him on a spy swap list and was willingly freed. Hardly the actions of a state that already had him in prison for the highest of crimes and wanting him silenced. And as Time reports, “if the obvious suspects in the case are the Russian intelligence services, it would suggest a major break from the rules they are taught to follow.“ (3) This basically destroys Russian motive.

The BBC reported in August of 1999, US defense experts arrived in Uzbekistan to “dismantle and decontaminate one of the former Soviet Union’s largest chemical weapons testing facilities.” The facility was known as “a major research site for a new generation of secret, highly lethal chemical weapons, known as Novichok”. This allowed the US a rich opportunity to study this nerve agent and reproduce it for testing and defense purposes. (1)

But it is not just the US. According to Craig Murray — former US Ambassador to Uzbekistan and prior to that a longtime career diplomat in the UK Foreign Office who worked across Africa, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia — the British government itself has advanced capabilities in Novichok:(1)

“The ‘novochok’ group of nerve agents — a very loose term simply for a collection of new nerve agents the Soviet Union were developing fifty years ago — will almost certainly have been analysed (sic) and reproduced by Porton Down. That is entirely what Porton Down is there for. It used to make chemical and biological weapons as weapons, and today it still does make them in small quantities in order to research defences (sic) and antidotes. After the fall of the Soviet Union Russian chemists made a lot of information available on these nerve agents. And one country which has always manufactured very similar persistent nerve agents is Israel.”

According to... Craig Murray, it is more reasonable to cast the net of suspicion onto Israel for many of the same reasons cited by the British government:

“Israel has the nerve agents. Israel has Mossad which is extremely skilled at foreign assassinations. Theresa May claimed Russian propensity to assassinate abroad as a specific reason to believe Russia did it. Well Mossad has an even greater propensity to assassinate abroad. And while I am struggling to see a Russian motive for damaging its own international reputation so grieviously (sic), Israel has a clear motivation for damaging the Russian reputation so grieviously (sic). Russian action in Syria has undermined the Israeli position in Syria and Lebanon in a fundamental way, and Israel has every motive for damaging Russia’s international position by an attack aiming to leave the blame on Russia.”(1)

NATO’s main interest has always been to rollback Russia’s regional influence so that the West can dominate Central Asian natural resources and oil pipeline routes.(2)

From True Publica, enter U.S. politics and Christopher Steel:

Valery Morozov, another former Russian intelligence officer who now lives in exile in Britain, said Skripal was still working with Russian military intelligence. (3)

“You have a Russian military intelligence officer working in the Russian diplomatic service, living after retirement in the U.K. working in cybersecurity and every month going to the [Russian] embassy to meet military intelligence officers,” Morozov told Channel 4 News. (3)

Deepening the mystery of Skripal’s loyalties, the Telegraph newspaper claims it has obtained information that the poisoned spy was a close confidant of Christopher Steel, the British ex-spy who compiled the so-called “Trump dossier.”(3)

Skripal was recently implicated in the alleged hacking of the U.S. elections in 2016. If Skripal was tapping his old sources to get fresh intelligence, he could have turned himself into an target. (3)

But targeted by whom? If I were a betting man, this was more of an Arkancide via Mossad, than a Putincide.

In The Strange Case of the UK/Russian Spy Poisoning Allegations, James O'Neill's "admittedly speculative hypothesis (not an unreasonable one) is that Skripal was likely involved in the production of the Steele dossier. He was therefore in a position to offer potentially very damaging information into the circumstances of the Steele dossier." He continues, "That particular narrative has not only spectacularly collapsed, but the revelations reflect very badly on, among others, the U.S. intelligence community, the FBI, the Democratic National Committee, the Obama White House and the Clinton campaign."(5)

This further raises the possibility of Arkancide by a U.S. or "allied" Intelligence Agency (Mossad).

Despite all the evidence listed above, and the absurdity of assurance regarding Russian involvement, the U.K. government is beating their chest, and invoking NATO alliances and "great" and "powerful" military capabilities.
Does this smell like a False Flag operation to anyone else? It should. It is right out of the Globalist (New World Order, Shadow Government) playbook:

1. Contrive and execute an attack on a friendly target or population.
2. Shape the narrative and evidence to support "enemy" involvement.
3. Blame enemy (in this case Russia).
4. Attack enemy with righteous indignation, and if most people buy the story, overwhelming military power.
5. Take what you want from the enemy, while being (somewhat) vindicated for your actions in the eyes of the world.

British security officials, however, have said the specific chemical used would have been difficult to obtain and could only have come from a state run or state-licensed laboratory. (3)

Nerve agents including Sarin and VX are manufactured by the British Government in Porton Down, just 8 miles from where Sergei Skripal was attacked and is the largest stock of deadly nerve agents and gases anywhere in Europe. (3)

Craig Murray, ex British ambassador even hints at something more sinister: “nor in this murky world should we overlook the fact that he must have known interesting things about his MI6 handlers. “Litvinenko II” is rather too pat and obvious, and could be a false flag set-up.” (3)

Needless to say, the evidence does not fit the narrative of Russian foul play, and should not be considered as justification for reprisals by the U.K. or NATO in any form. As always, we should seek the facts, think critically, never believe what they feed us in the MSM, and draw our own conclusions. To do any less is a discredit to ourselves and humanity.

Sources:

1 - Nafeez Ahmed, "The UK Government is Manufacturing its Nerve Agent Case for ‘Action’ on Russia" http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48952.htm

2 - Nafeez Ahmed, "Army document: US strategy to ‘dethrone’ Putin for oil pipelines might provoke WW3"
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/army-study-us-strategy-to-dethrone-putin-for-oil-pipelines-might-provoke-ww3-9b1d9dbe6be9

3 - True Publica, "Double Agent Sergei Skripal – There’s More to This Story Than Meets the Eye"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48973.htm

4 - Craig Murray, "Russian to Judgment"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48941.htm

5 - James James O’Neill, "The Strange Case of the UK/Russian Spy Poisoning Allegations"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48985.htm